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Struts 2 on GAE – Error: result ‘null’ not found

Problem

Developing Struts2 on Google App Engine, in following environment.

  1. Struts 2.3.1.2
  2. JDK 1.6
  3. Eclipse 3.7 + Google Plugin for Eclipse
  4. Google App Engine Java SDK 1.6.3.1

Just started a simple Struts2 hello world example, when access the action class, hit error “Error: result ‘null’ not found”, in both local development and real production GAE environment.

struts2 on gae - result null error

Solution

OGNL is performing some security checking, which is not support in GAE. To make Struts 2 works on GAE environment, you need to create a listener in web.xml and set the OGNL security manager to null.


OgnlRuntime.setSecurityManager(null);

Full example.


package com.mkyong.listener;

import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionAttributeListener;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionEvent;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionListener;

import ognl.OgnlRuntime;

public class Struts2ListenerOnGAE implements ServletContextListener,
		HttpSessionListener, HttpSessionAttributeListener {

	public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
		OgnlRuntime.setSecurityManager(null);
	}

	@Override
	public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void sessionCreated(HttpSessionEvent arg0) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent arg0) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void attributeAdded(HttpSessionBindingEvent arg0) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void attributeRemoved(HttpSessionBindingEvent arg0) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void attributeReplaced(HttpSessionBindingEvent arg0) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

}

File : web.xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
        xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">

	<filter>
	   <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
	   <filter-class>
             org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter
           </filter-class>
	</filter>

	<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	</filter-mapping>

	<listener>
		<listener-class>com.mkyong.listener.Struts2ListenerOnGAE</listener-class>
	</listener>
	
</web-app>

Reference

  1. Issues when deploying Struts 2 on GAE

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Mohit Arvind Khakharia
7 years ago

Was stuck badly on this one. Thank a ton.